we
we is a collaborative installation by Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Dale Kaminski and Mat Rappaport inspired by the dystopic novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
we is a generative audio surveillance work which collects sound from an array of microphones attached to weather balloons. The balloons are arranged in a grid and held in place by stanchions. The sounds are accessed at an elevated listening station by headphones. The microphones are adjusted to pick up the sound from the area under each balloon. The signals are fed to the listening station where they are reprocessed and combined with samples and prerecorded passages from the novel We. The result is a soundscape which convolutes time and location and creates a sonic collection of the activities within the space. Only one person may listen in at a time, hearing the conversation going on within the gallery as well as sounds collected within the last minute or so – perhaps even hearing themselves.
8 images, 2007-2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, stanchions, surveillance station, in “Under Surveillance”, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, stanchions, surveillance station, in “Under Surveillance”, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, stanchions, surveillance station, in “Under Surveillance”, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, stanchions, surveillance station, in “Under Surveillance”, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, stanchions, surveillance station, in “Under Surveillance”, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2008
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, surveillance station, in iDEAs 07: Beyond Boundaries: 5th Annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) Conference, F.U.E.L, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, surveillance station, in iDEAs 07: Beyond Boundaries: 5th Annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) Conference, F.U.E.L, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007
we, 6 channel audio installation, weather balloons, surveillance station, in Explorations in Fused Forms: 61st Annual University Film Video Association Conference, New Media Gallery, Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2007